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    Quote Originally Posted by KirillMazur View Post
    Shaped - does that mean ones which influenced (for ex. somehow helped to develop personality) you at a relatively young age, and not just favourite ones?
    Even then 3 is too low number.

    1) "Guest from the Future" and "Adventures of Electronic". Soviet children's science fiction films.


    2) Soviet comedies, mostly by Leonid Gaidai.

    3) American fiction, such as "Aliens", "Predator" and "Terminator". Probably some martial arts movies, both with JCVD or Jackie Chan and some ours, like "Fanat".

    This is something that could somehow affect me up to 7-8 years. There are many more great films out there, but you need to be older to fully understand and rethink them, so they were already beyond the period of my personality formation.
    Totally agree! I think films that influence us the most are ones we saw as kids or at least young teens.
    Later it doesn't work like that anyone.

    Great observation!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Feiichy View Post
    Why these 3 I named shaped my life (and they really have)

    Boy's don't cry- it's obvuiously a trannie story (girl who pretends to be a boy and pursues women) which I can't identitfy with. However, I always was a tomboy and received abuse (including on TA) for being not feminine. I like men only but always was interested in male stuff and hobbies. Also main character in film (Hilary Swank) even resembles teenage me. I like aestetic of a film and soundtrack too, always was interested into a white trash experience and American midwest.

    8 Mile-it's mostly the setting that deeply influenced me. I'm also from once industrial and formerly rich crumbling "rust belt" city. Thus this highly urban and gritty setting always appealed to me. Soundtrack is a banger too and this film is my opinion contains one of hottest sex scenes I've seen. Plus incredible Kim Basinger as Eminem white trash mom and Michael Shannon as her abusive, good for nothing boyfriend. Story is inspirational too.

    Empire of the Sun- really epic, a proper "big film." Incredible music, visuals and atmospheric. I identified with dreamy main character who was separated from his loving, protective parents and privileged life and thrown into cruel real world. Similar happened to me during sports and schooling abroad. Its shows a loss of innocence and a spoiled brat becoming tough and scarred. Also witnesses huge historic events. I was always drawn to China and it is set there. Scene where boy (actually Christian Bale as child) witnesses light blast of atomic bomb thrown on Japan is maybe most powerful I ever saw.
    This is all very racially subversive and sexually degenerate.

    First film is about a sexual deviant. Your second film is about a White man becoming a wigger (the wigger even gets cucked. A negro bangs his White girlfriend). The last film involves chinks and you show you are drawn to said chinks.

    Boooooo Feiichy... Booooooo...

    My picks were all high IQ

    The Reflecting Skin - first time I though about one's perception and reality.

    Stand by Me - made me appreciate my childhood as I was living it (an unlikely awareness).

    Barton Fink - brought to my attention the hypocrisy and ignorance of many artists and pseudo-intellectuals. People who write and speak about their 'source material' but are too arrogant to listen to the people they write about. They're just writing about their own limited understanding of other people's lives and experiences; it's often based on tropes and their own personal baggage shoehorned.

    Feiichy is officially out of the White woman's club until she redeems herself.

    Boooooo... *hiss* Booooooo..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel Frank Grimes View Post
    Barton Fink - brought to my attention the hypocrisy and ignorance of many artists and pseudo-intellectuals. People who write and speak about their 'source material' but are too arrogant to listen to the people they write about. They're just writing about their own limited understanding of other people's lives and experiences; it's often based on tropes and their own personal baggage shoehorned.
    Charlie Meadows : Come on, Barton. You think you know pain? You think I made your life Hell? Look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter. I *live* here.

    Another great quote.

    LIPNIK
    You arrogant sonofabitch! You think
    you're the only writer who can give
    me that Barton Fink feeling?! I got
    twenty writers under contract that I
    can ask for a Finktype thing from.
    You swell-headed hypocrite! You
    just don't get it, do you? You think
    the whole world revolves inside
    whatever rattles inside that little
    kike head of yours. Get him outta my
    sight, Lou.

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    LOL!

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    LOTR, Ben Hur, Terminator

    in my youth is I liked to watch Godzilla movies and Star Wars
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    I only have 1 film from my childhood that has had a significant impact on my life. After this film, I became obsessed with Japan and wanted to become a samurai. For many years I went to wushu, budokai and juda sections, received several belts, participated in judo competitions. I fell in love with a classmate who was of Korean descent because she looked like a Japanese girl.

    But with age it disappeared and now I'm not a fan of Japan, etc.
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    Not necessarily films I agree with ideologically or politically, but extremely important for my approach towards art and filmmaking, and ones I continue to refer to and study in the techniques, camera angles and general artistic direction. Books have always been more important in shaping my views, opinions and life and I consider literature to be the highest medium; while film can be thought-provoking as well, its scope is somewhat limited, more aimed towards provoking than instilling views and ideas.
    There have been others - Lord of the Rings trilogy, Bondarchuk's Waterloo, Olympia, Murnau's Faust, Stalker, Paths of Glory. I've seen hundreds of films. Most of them were garbage. Some were memorable. A sparse handful was transformative.
    The Cremator, specifically, is a subversive one as I don't accept a mainstream view of the film, I don't think it was a horror at all. It's an interesting psychological piece and in a sense can be considered a political-ideological metaphor. One of the most important films for my whole conception of camerawork.
    Valhalla Rising stands at the core of my preference for slow-paced art films and sparse dialogue, films you can watch multiple times while always coming to a different conclusion. A film that encourages you to think while you watch. I first watched it when I was around fifteen, whence it immediately captivated me with its art direction and fundamentally changed what I perceived as important qualities in a film.
    Ghost in the Shell is the film responsible for my pursuit of filmmaking altogether. Another one of those movies I can watch at multiple stages of life. No longer my favourite as it once used to be - I've drifted away from its tone and found I like other things better - but very influential for my attitudes towards film, animated film and my own career.

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    Valhalla Rising is one of most memorable films I saw as well, regarding atmosphere. Great reply, very interesting to read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Feiichy View Post
    Valhalla Rising is one of most memorable films I saw as well, regarding atmosphere. Great reply, very interesting to read.
    Valhalla Rising is an interesting movie because it follows the storytelling principles closer to old films and, now a feature that rests entirely in the realm of art films and is absent from broadly screened blockbusters, does not spell things out for the viewer nor does it feel obliged to entertain him with constant stimuli. It's actually challenging to watch sometimes, because you have to try and look for connections and meaning. I recalled it a lot when I would later watch Stalker, the format of a film as a journey in which the greatest antagonist is man's own limitations and his insufficiency, and he acts, rather than reacts, has become one of my favourites.
    I'm also very picky with visuals. My favourite movies are almost all from the black and white era, and all from before 2002, including the animated ones, except for Valhalla Rising.

    Digital camera made films worse.

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